bloodletting

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Recent Examples of bloodletting The trailer goes hard and heavy on the bloodletting, along with some cameos from other DC characters like Viola Davis’s Amanda Waller. Eric Francisco, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2024 New York Mayor Eric Adams lost his last close City Hall ally Friday as the pressure of a federal bribery indictment and multiple investigations forced an administrative bloodletting at the top of America’s biggest city. Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024 Certainly, Hasina’s fall provided room for a spate of attacks on police and minorities, though analysts say the scale of bloodletting has been sensationalized. Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024 Something about its raw-nerve energy, the bloodletting of it all, energized the masses around the world and shot the song to Number One on Spotify’s Global 200 chart, collecting 3 billion streams in the process. Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for bloodletting 
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Noun
  • But amid the bloodshed, there was also a sense of closure for this chaotic and influential Montana family.
    William Earl, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Both involved some actual bloodshed, which probably accounts for their relative fame.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In another high-profile case, Mangione, the man facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was reported missing last month by his mother.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge.
    Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The mass slaughter is traced back to Bhagwan Chowdhary, the founder of the Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur, Bara District.
    Chad de Guzman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • As Christmas approaches, and strange occurrences like the mass slaughter of reindeer start to transpire, Pietari and those around him discover the boy is only half-right and the real trouble is even deeper and stranger.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The urgency and depth of the national crisis compelled them to create narratives addressing the intimate human consequences of the unspeakable carnage around them.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • One casualty of this carnage is Lawtey’s Rob, another character who comes to see the light as he’s betrayed by Yasmin (whom he’s had a crush on since Season 1).
    Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Police are far more likely to be convicted of manslaughter than murder in on-duty killings, and the statute of limitations for the lesser crime had expired or nearly run out on three of the four shootings Middleton was set to review by the time he was hired in June 2021.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The killing, which has inspired a mix of public reactions from horror to apathy, has sparked larger conversations about public frustrations with America’s health insurance companies, healthcare costs and general denial of care.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Jones’s site was put up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case in the wake of the nearly $1.5 billion that courts ordered Jones to pay families tied to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings for falsely calling the massacre a hoax.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Last month, The Onion won the bidding for Infowars, which has been forced to sell its assets after a $1.4 billion defamation judgment in favor of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The ex-wife of a Woodland Hills doctor has been arrested along with four others in his execution-style slaying outside his medical practice this summer, according to police.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The forgery charge relates to his alleged possession of several false identification documents, including one that was allegedly used to check into a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side nearly two weeks before Thompson’s slaying.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Tate added that residents have expressed interest in utilizing animal byproducts, such as eggs, honey and even feathers for textiles, noting that animal butchery is only at licensed slaughterhouses — not at residential properties.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This small neighborhood restaurant focuses on nose-to-tail butchery and farm-to-table, emphasizing minimizing waste and supporting a sustainable food system in the Great Lakes region.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2024

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